My Peace - Zelda
My peace is tied by a thread
to your peace.
And cherished holidays
and wonderful seasons
and their trove of aromas, flowers,
fruit, leaves and wind,
and with mist and rain,
sudden snow,
and dew
suspended by a thread of desire.
I and you and Shabbat.
I and you and our lives
in a previous incarnation.
I and you
and falsehood.
And fear.
And rifts.
I and you
and the creator of the heavens without
coastline.
I and you
and enigma.
I and you
and death.
(1965)
trans. Reuven Greenvald
שלומי /זלדה
שְׁלוֹמִי קָשׁוּר בְּחוּט
אֶל שְׁלוֹמְךָ.
וְהַחַגִּים הָאֲהוּבִים
וּתְקוּפוֹת הַשָּׁנָה הַנִּפְלָאוֹת
עִם אוֹצַר הָרֵיחוֹת, הַפְּרָחִים,
הַפְּרִי, הֶעָלִים וְהָרוּחוֹת,
וְעִם הָעֲרָפֶל וְהַמָּטָר,
הַשֶּׁלֶג הַפִּתְאֹמִי
וְהַטַּל
תְּלוּיִים עַל חוּט הַכְּמִיהָה.
אֲנִי וְאַתָּה וְהַשַּׁבָּת.
אֲנִי וְאַתָּה וְחַיֵּינוּ
בַּגִּלְגּוּל הַקּוֹדֵם.
אֲנִי וְאַתָּה
וְהַשֶּׁקֶר.
וְהַפַּחַד.
וְהַקְּרָעִים.
אֲנִי וְאַתָּה
וּבוֹרֵא הַשָּׁמַיִם שֶׁאֵין לָהֶם
חוֹף.
אֲנִי וְאַתָּה
וְהַחִידָה.
אֲנִי וְאַתָּה
וְהַמָּוֶת.
(1965)
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